Coating a brake disc via EHLA (Credit: Fraunhofer ILT/Volker Lannert)
Augmenting automotive production
11 December 2019
Keely Portway looks at some of the latest ways laser surface treatment is being used to optimise automotive production
Surface treatment
Going with the grain
7 March 2019
Greg Blackman speaks to Marco Reichle, at Reichle Technologiezentrum, on laser texturing injection moulds for vehicle makers – now a huge part of the firm’s business
Sky’s the limit for laser processing
7 January 2019
Keely Portway discovers some of the different ways advances in laser processing have been used to help improve aircraft efficiency
EHLA can operate up to 10 times faster than conventional LMD. Image: Fraunhofer ILT
Driving deposition
12 January 2018
New high-speed laser cladding technologies are being developed that rival more traditional techniques, as Matthew Dale discovers
Lasing on the wing
1 December 2016
Matthew Dale on some of the laser processing that goes into building aircraft, from treating carbon fibre wing skins to 3D printing lightweight brackets
